Pat Roberts

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate voted Tuesday to keep a $400 million annual cut — or roughly a half of 1 percent — to the food stamp program as part of a major five-year farm bill. Food stamps now cost almost $80 billion annually and are...

Kansas Sen. Pat Roberts voted against the Senate Agriculture Committee markup of the farm bill Tuesday, calling it a "rear-view-mirror bill" instead of moving forward with reform. "This is an invitation to farm for the government," he told The News...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate Agriculture Committee approved a farm bill on Tuesday, costing $500 billion over a decade, that would expand the scope of the federally subsidized crop insurance program and modestly trim spending on food stamps for the...

? President Barack Obama: Benghazi, IRS scandal signal rise of second-term curse. ? Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon: Medicaid expansion, Nixon's #1 agenda item, already ancient history. Must stare down major Kansas-style tax cut bill. DMV funding still an...

U.S. senators considering fundamental changes to how the practice of pharmacy compounding is regulated heard almost unanimous support for reform at a Washington committee hearing Thursday. And a top federal drug official, who has studied a fungal...

* House, Senate panels plan to draft farm bill next week * Split on food stamps widens from last year * Food stamps make up largest part of farm bill spending By Charles Abbott WASHINGTON, May 9 (Reuters) - Lawmakers are preparing for a second run...

Michael McAuliff writes for the Huffington Post about Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse's rebuttal to those who contend God would never allow mankind to destroy the planet:  Although Whitehouse did not name names, some of his Senate colleagues could be counted as...

The two Kansans in the U.S. Senate split over an Internet sales tax collection bill. Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Dodge City, voted against the measure, which would see major online retailers collecting sales tax from out-of-state shoppers. Sen. Jerry Moran,...

KANSAS-GUN LAWS-ANALYSIS Analysis: Kan. pro-gun law is political statement TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A new Kansas law taking effect this week declares that the federal government can't regulate some guns within the state, but in the short term, it's...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A new Kansas law taking effect this week declares that the federal government can't regulate guns manufactured and kept within the state. But in the short term, it's likely to remain more of a political statement than a practical...

U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts would be the oldest Kansan to ever serve in the U.S. Senate if he wins and completes the new six-year term he is seeking. Roberts, who has served continuously in office on Capitol Hill for more than 32 years, turned 77 years old...

Access to rural housing programs that benefit a significant number of homebuyers in Aberdeen could be extended under a bill introduced Thursday by Sen. Tim Johnson, D-S.D., and others. Without an extension of some sort, the city would lose access to two...